Australia's birds are not being protected by environmental laws, report says

BirdLife says loopholes, exemptions, omissions and powers open to politicisation have been exploitedSome of Australia’s favourite birds are threatened with extinction and Australia’s environmental laws are failing to protect them, a new report by BirdLife Australia has found.
The report identified in the existing laws a slew of loopholes, exemptions, omissions and discretionary powers open to politicisation, each of which have been exploited to allow the decline of birds including th